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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the h

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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